Kelly Link
“Ridiculously brilliant . . . These stories make you laugh while staring into the void.”—The...
"An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and Buffy the Vampire Slayer."—Salon.com (Best of the Year)
"A delightful collection."—Cleveland Plain Dealer
"My favorite fantasy writer."—Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered
"Link's stories defy explanation, or at least, brief summary, instead working on the plane between dream and cognitive dissonance. They are true to themselves: witty,
...“[These] exquisite stories mix the aggravations and epiphanies of everyday life with the stuff that legends, dreams and nightmares...
Through the lens of Kelly Link's vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award- winning "The Faery Handbag," in which a teenager's grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the near-future of "The Surfer," whose narrator (a soccer-playing skeptic) waits with a planeload of refugees...
7) The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet: Unexpected Tales of the Fantastic & Other Old Musings
Contains stories by the amazing Jeffrey Ford, the fabulous Karen Joy Fowler, the unlikely Kelly Link, the thrilling Nalo Hopkinson, the shockingly good Karen Russell, the unnerving James Sallis, and dozens of uncanny others, as well as useful lists of many...
In John Wyndham’s classically elegant, calm style, this novel explores the arrival of a collective intelligence on earth that threatens to eliminate mankind. The quiet, eerie changes that befall Midwich manifest in strange ways: On the surface, everything seems normal, but scratch a little...
Praise for Joan Aiken's stories:
"Wildly inventive, darkly lyrical, and always surprising . . . should be cherished."—Publishers Weekly
"Darkly whimsical stories. . . . Aiken writes with surpassing spirit and alertness, her elegant restraint and dry wit never fail to leave their mark."—Kirkus Reviews
"Will appeal to readers of short stories and literary fiction. Highly recommended."—Library Journal
"Aiken's
...In a small town lost to despair, a dark carnival of a market appears. In the first of Cassandra Clare's Ghosts of the Shadow Market co-written with Kelly Link, faeries and warlocks we know converge, and the fate that will one day produce Kit Herondale is sealed.
Praise for the The Mortal Instruments series:
"Clare continues her talent for mixing hip, modern humor with traditional fantasy."
— SLJ
"[P]lenty
...This eleventh volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy
features twenty-six stories by some of the genre's greatest authors,
including David Gerrold, Carolyn Ives Gilman, James Patrick Kelly,
Rich Larson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yoon Ha Lee, Sarah Pinsker, Justina
Robson, Kelly Robson, Lavie Tidhar, Juliette Wade, and many others.
Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed,
Tor.com, and other top venues,
The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains,...
Imaginative fiction from Neil Gaiman, Karen Russell, Daniel H. Wilson, and more, selected by New York Times-bestselling author Joe Hill.
Science fiction and fantasy enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and William Gibson. In The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2015 award-winning editor John Joseph Adams and
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